This was the last straw! Russian convict soldiers uprise! Army convoy ambushed and killed!

Across Russia, the strain of a grinding, casualty-heavy war is no longer confined to the battlefield and is now destabilizing the country’s internal systems. As traditional recruitment sources dry up, the state has increasingly relied on coercion, blurring the line between the penal system and the military. That dependence has turned prisons from places of containment into front-line reservoirs of desperation, resentment, and disorder. When the only options presented are death at the front or slow destruction behind bars, the basic incentives that keep a society governed by fear begin to break down. Violence that was once outwardly directed is now starting to point inward, at the very structures enforcing obedience. What is emerging is not just a manpower problem for the Kremlin, but a growing internal security risk of its own making.

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